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  1. Re:If this isn't bullshit nothing is on Astronomers Measure Total Starlight Emitted Over 13.7 Billion Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Something cannot come from nothing. It has to come from something else. Unless the something else is boring and you want to turn it into something more. Otherwise, be accurate!!!

  2. Re:In the past, their software was a good choice on Amazon Will Be Off All Oracle Databases By End of 2019, Says AWS Chief · · Score: 3, Funny

    That was back when foursquare was a thing and people said things like Golly Be and Hot Dickens!

  3. Wow, I thought I was going to be a freakin' genius and post this. I guess you beat me to it.

  4. Re:Good on these guys on Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers To Predict Their Futures (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, some of the stories these guys write are really sweet sci-fi novellas

  5. Re:Tennis shoes... in space!!!! on Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers To Predict Their Futures (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    There will be no peace for science fiction writers, will there? They just keep on writing.

  6. Re:Loot boxes are not gambling on The FTC Says It Will Investigate Loot Boxes (kotaku.com) · · Score: 2

    But can a player keep an unopened loot box and sell it to another player? That would be more interesting from an FTC perspective.

  7. I love this laundry list of functionality. I will be sure to clip a few of these articles and send them to my friends and colleagues!

  8. Re:Unintended consequences on Google Has a Plan To Eliminate Mosquitoes Around the World (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 2

    Doubtful. They are mosquitos. Why wouldn't they best understand the impact of wiping them?

  9. Re:Remember on Microsoft's Stock Market Value Pulls Ahead of Apple's (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I would expect that research would also be playing it safe, if perhaps, research didn't get in the way of the normal course of trading. But I believe I agree with how you boiled down the ocean in the last sentence. Simplicity perhaps is always best. I'll have to check my encyclopedia tomorrow about all those other words you used :)

  10. Re:Everything is Made up and the Points Don't Matt on Microsoft's Stock Market Value Pulls Ahead of Apple's (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because Chinese drivers may care less about running over pedestrians than in the US or the UK? :)

  11. Re:Everything is Made up and the Points Don't Matt on Microsoft's Stock Market Value Pulls Ahead of Apple's (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't appear on any official documents so you might have to wander in the desert for a while before you figure it out.

  12. Re:Thanks on Microsoft's Stock Market Value Pulls Ahead of Apple's (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The market cap is a meaningless number, but only in a sense that is more sophisticated than how the number is used. In reality, the various prices paid for company stock of various types, that would allow you to calculate a more contextual number (leaving out all the *really meaningful* numbers, such as you would find in financial statements and annual reports) are kept under lock and key in the big company's main accounting system. Anyone who claims to have those details outside of the company are telling you something less than accurate.

  13. Re:Tennis shoes... in space!!!! on Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers To Predict Their Futures (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazing. Send them an invoice in super large print. You know Bezos eyes are ruined from years of staring at UPS and FEDEX tracking screens.

  14. Re:Does anyone know why? on CeBIT, World's Largest IT Conference, Canned (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of those products had been bombing for quite a while. I wonder what will happen to them.

  15. rial news on The App Destroying Iran's Currency (foreignpolicy.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did he mean to say fake as in not rial?

  16. Re:Music vs Internet on Music Industry Asks US Government To Reconsider Website Blocking (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that music is aesthetically pleasing, and the internet is for the most part completely invisible.

  17. Re: Time for a tax on intellectual property? on Music Industry Asks US Government To Reconsider Website Blocking (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    This is clear evidence that open debate is required. Without it, the state of IP will simply advance at a snail's pace, in the favor of the "in" crowd.

  18. Re: Are they allowed to pick? on Dictionary.com Picks 'Misinformation' As Word of the Year (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Good word. Also could have chosen the synonym: illegal profiteering

  19. Re: Hang right the fuck up. on Google Is Being Vague With Disclosure In Early Real-World Duplex Calls (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They want to get as many calls out before a deadline as they can because in the fine print that they will not share with you, they think they try to charge back the customer for the call

  20. Re: Explain 10+ years with no hurricanes, then on Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    If we wait long enough we will find out for sure if the planet is heating up, will we not? Why argue? Just watch

  21. Would there be the occasional advertisement?

  22. Re: Also AWS certification to be had if you want on Amazon Opens Up Its Internal Machine Learning Training To Everyone (amazon.com) · · Score: 1

    Sold

  23. Re:May I suggest... on Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    You people need to stop bullying me

  24. Re:Unfortunately not particularly useful. on Washington DC Made GitHub Its Official Digital Source For Laws (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, the laws of tomorrow today!

  25. Re:Companies are Bad - Jobs are Bad on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny - I know a number of people who work at Amazon and not a one has ever considered leaving. Something to do with their commitment to their employees well-being and growth. These people literally wouldn't dream of leaving. They love it.